Setup new Macbook Pro laptop for development

Utilities

• Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts - Rectangle
• Clipboard manager for developers - Flycut

Homebrew

Install the Homebrew package manager. This will allow you to install almost any app from the command line.

  # install
  /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

  # update
  brew update

Once this is done, install the following via Homebrew. Some of the installers will have additional steps (e.g. add program to PATH), make sure to follow them.

Package	Usage
Colima	Docker container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) link
glab	Gitlab CLI link
trivy	Image security scan CLI link

  # Core
  brew install \
    iterm2 \
    make \
    nvm \
    kubectx \
    pyenv \
    colima \
    glab \
    trivy


  # Cask
  brew install --cask \
    docker \
    postman \
    sublime-text \
    visual-studio-code \
    intellij-idea-ce \
    google-cloud-sdk

Shell

ohmyzsh

  sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Automatically switch to project node version

https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#calling-nvm-use-automatically-in-a-directory-with-a-nvmrc-file

Terminal aliases

  alias gp="git pull"
  alias gc="git checkout"
  alias gs="git status"
  alias gpr="git pull --rebase"
  alias gh="<path_to_this_repository>/scripts/open_git_branch_in_github.sh

Node Version Manager

  curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.2/install.sh | bash

Java

Stress-free way to manage JDK - https://sdkman.io/

Git

Configure Git

git config --global user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME" --global user.email "MY_NAME@email.com"

If you need to configure git for a single repository, replace --global flag with --local

Credit to https://ma.ttias.be/pretty-git-log-in-one-line/

git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"

Kubernetes

Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx?tab=readme-ov-file